White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O'toole Reviewed by Alan Taylor
The New Republic Online
"During the 1750s, Sir William Johnson became the most famous American in the British Empire. Not even the amateur scientist and professional lobbyist Benjamin Franklin could compare. George Washington, a wealthy planter and provincial politician in Virginia, lagged far behind. Franklin and Washington now loom much larger in American memory because they won the revolutionary independence that Johnson resisted to his death in 1774. And those revolutionaries erased the Indian power that Johnson had exploited to make himself indispensable to the lost empire." Read the entire New Republic Online review.